History Characters / GameOfThronesTyrionLannister

The youngest Lannister sibling, son of Tywin and brother of Jaime and Cersei. As Tyrion is born a [[DisabledCharacterDisabledActor dwarf]] and his mother died during childbirth, he is resented by Tywin and Cersei since birth. At the beginning of the series, knowing that no one will ever take him seriously, Tyrion uses his status as a Lannister and live his life with wine and prostitutes.

** He treats Lancel like total dogshit but since Lancel is an utter scumbag who abuses his power to bully others it's more satisfying than anything elese.

The youngest Lannister sibling, son of Tywin and brother of Jaime and Cersei. As Tyrion is born a dwarf and his mother died during childbirth, he is resented by Tywin and Cersei since birth. At the beginning of the series, knowing that no one will ever take him seriously, Tyrion uses his status as a Lannister and live his life with wine and prostitutes.

** Early on in the series he is rude to Theon but completely nails how moronic Balon Greyjoy was to launch a rebellion when they were vastly outnumbered by Robert and correctly points out to him that Balon is a dick who will see him as pathetic foe getting so attached to his captors.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first 4 seasons, Tyrion was portrayed as a cynical JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a prodigious degree of cunning and a ruthless edge - a depiction that was closer to his book counterpart. The later seasons have changed his overall presentation. While still a DeadpanSnarker, Tyrion is now much more heroic, often going out of his way to be a NiceGuy to everyone he meets. Furthermore his supposed brilliance is now more of an InformedAttribute. Lately his biggest contributions have come from the emotional support he provides for others rather than any plans he's drawn up. This has been noted in-universe, and in season 8 Daenerys is seriously considering replacing him as hand because of it.

* NiceGuy: By Season 6 he's lost most of his jerkassy from the first few seasons and become a calming, support influence to Danaerys. Unfortunately in that it means he seems to have lost the ruthless intelligence he had, trying in vain to negotiate with Cersei twice only to have it backfire in the worst possible way [[spoiler: culminating in Danaerys' utter bloodbath during The Bells]].

* TragicHero: Tyrion's open animosity towards Joffrey really comes back to bite him when he is tried for Joffrey's murder. When Jaime offered him a chance to falsely confess his guilt in order for Tywin to spare him and send him to The Wall, Tyrion refused and demanded a Trial of Combat out of pride and anger, which nearly gets him killed and forces him into exile.

** Seen again in the third season premiere when he wants Tywin to acknowledge his successes as Hand of the King and officially name Tyrion the heir to Casterly Rock. Not only does Tywin deny him both but he gives Tyrion a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech instead.

* WickedCultured: He's very well-read. In Season 1, when Jon asks Tyrion why he reads so much, Tyrion says he'll never be a great warrior so his mind is his best weapon, saying that a mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Of House Lannister as well as the OnlySaneMan in the first fou seasons. He's one of the only members of the family who thinks of the common folk's well-being and is consistently disgusted and disturbed by Joffrey's actions. Unlike most of House Lannister, Tyrion is a good man at heart.

* SpoiledBrat: Bronn accuses Tyrion of this, and from the perspective of an amoral sellsword raised in the gutter it's certainly true. You're de facto heir to the richest, most powerful family in the Seven Kingdoms, married to a beautiful PrincessClassic and due to inherit half of Westeros (albeit the colder half) -- who cares if you're the NoRespectGuy, your sister hates you and your father's always been a cunt?
** Though Bronn does admit your immediate family barring your brother passively trying to kill you kind of sucks.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Of House Lannister as well as the OnlySaneMan. He's one of the only members of the family who thinks of the common folk's well-being and is consistently disgusted and disturbed by Joffrey's actions. Unlike most of House Lannister, Tyrion is a good man at heart.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the early seasons, Tyrion was portrayed as a cynical JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a prodigious degree of cunning and a ruthless edge - a depiction that was closer to his book counterpart. The later seasons have changed his overall presentation. While still a DeadpanSnarker, Tyrion is now much more heroic, often going out of his way to be a NiceGuy to everyone he meets. Furthermore his supposed brilliance is now more of an InformedAttribute. Lately his biggest contributions have come from the emotional support he provides for others rather than any plans he's drawn up. This has been noted in-universe, and in season 8 Daenerys is seriously considering replacing him as hand because of it.

** His DesparatelyCravesAffection tendencies - For all his smarts and ability see what he assumes to be threats to the kingdom, when it comes to himself, he ends up holding the IdiotBall, he has been betrayed/harmed at one point by almost everyone bar Jon and Jorah, He seems to have a blind spot for people showing him even a slight bit more than a veneer of kindness.

* GeneralFailure: His strategy for Daenerys's conquest of Westeros falls apart almost immediately -- which severely strains Daenerys' trust in him (but luckily not enough to sack him). To be fair it's not entirely his fault. He had been away from Westeros for nearly two years and the intel he based his strategy off of was outdated -- and none of Daenerys' Westeroi allies felt like correcting him, even as he explained his strategy right in front of them.

* InformedAttribute: Tyrion presents himself to Dany as a brilliant strategist and politician, and Dany appoints him Hand of the Queen. The thing is his record during her service is not quite good. As Meereen he served as a good hand but made terrible errors in diplomacy, namely in underrating (over Missandei and Grey Worm's objections) the lengths to which the slaveowners would go to keep their property and that they would bite any sweetheart deal he could come up with, and this led to the city being under siege until Dany came to save the day. Then his strategy for Dany's Invasion at the start of Season 7 has produced failure after failure, being OutGambitted by his own brother, failing to anticipate Euron Greyjoy attacking and kidnapping Yara and the Martells and moreover having Dany's wide-open advantage eaten away in short time.

** He's [[JadeColoredGlasses cynical]], sarcastic, crude, drunk, and a lover of whores, but he is also one of the kindest characters in the series. Witness his interactions with his niece Myrcella and nephew Tommen, Jon Snow, Bran Stark, and Sansa Stark.

* AntiHero: A PragmaticHero for the most part. Unlike Ned Stark or Jon Arryn, Tyron knows how to play the game of thrones and tries to play it well.

* DeadpanSnarker: Tyrion is physically compelled to make sarcastic remarks about everything and anything, which combined with his silver-tongued nature makes him absurdly quotable.

** His love for his family. He hates Cersei, but also loves her at the same time, as shown when he tries to talk her down in Season 7 to form a truce against the White Walkers, because he doesn't want her ''dead''. He also loves Jaime, even though Jaime is the idiot that started the feuds with the Starks in the first place and enables Cersei. Dany accuses him of letting his love for his brother blind him to the reality that Jaime has a reputation of being a man without honor and maybe he's sabotaging her campaigns subconsciously. [[spoiler:In Season 8, when Cersei manages to take Missandei hostage, he begs her to surrender and free Missandei or her life and her baby's life is forfeit. Cersei considers that point for a moment, and then kills Missandei]].
** For all his smarts and ability see what he assumes to be threats to the kingdom, when it comes to himself, he ends up holding the IdiotBall, he has been betrayed/harmed at one point by almost everyone bar Jon and Jorah, He seems to have a blind spot for people showing him even a slight bit more than a veneer of kindness.

** To Theon Greyjoy. Both are desperately trying to earn the love or, at the very least, the respect of their respective fathers, who believe that they are a disappointment and a dishonor for their family name. Both commit morally wrong or even monstrous acts to achieve their goals: Tyrion basically does everything to save the reign of the cruel and sadistic Joffrey, who has demonstrated many times that he is unworthy of the throne, while Theon takes Winterfell, betrays the Starks, who was his family for a decade, and kill innocent people, including children. Their arc in Season 2 ends with them failing miserably in their attempts: Theon is betrayed by his own men and becomes a hostage to Ramsay Snow, while Tyrion, despite keeping King's Landing standing long enough for Tywin and the Tyrells to save the day, is disfigured in battle, almost dies and receives no honor or reward for his deeds. And, of course, both continue to be hated by their respective parents.
** Come Season 7 and he has become one to his own brother Jaime. Both men are in service to queens in opposite sides of the war and they genuinely believe they are going to make the world a better place once their victory is complete. They also manage to massively disappoint them due to fatal mistakes they make, such as Tyrion's plans lead to TheAlliance that Daenerys form in Season 6 quickly crumbling and Jaime's defeat in Blackwater Rush and as a result both Daenerys and Cersei disregard their advice to take matters into their own hands.
* FourStarBadass: Proves himself to be quite the strategist and a capable commander in Blackwater. Bonus points for leading a counterattack.

** To Theon Greyjoy in Season 2. Both are desperately trying to earn the love or, at the very least, the respect of their respective fathers, who believe that they are a disappointment and a dishonor for their family name. Both commit morally wrong or even monstrous acts to achieve their goals: Tyrion basically does everything to save the reign of the cruel and sadistic Joffrey, who has demonstrated many times that he is unworthy of the throne, while Theon takes Winterfell, betrays the Starks, who was his family for a decade, and kill innocent people, including children. Their arc in Season 2 ends with them failing miserably in their attempts: Theon is betrayed by his own men and becomes a hostage to Ramsay Snow, while Tyrion, despite keeping King's Landing standing long enough for Tywin and the Tyrells to save the day, is disfigured in battle, almost dies and receives no honor or reward for his deeds. And, of course, both continue to be hated by their respective parents.

** To some extent, Ned Stark who served as ''The Hand'' in Season 1. Ned showed what happened when you applied HonorBeforeReason in politics refusing to make any compromise whatsover. Tyrion is not a CorruptPolitician at all, but he accepts the demands of {{Realpolitik}} far better and is able to curtail the excesses and machinations of the King and Cersei far better than Ned, as Varys noted. Of course, while Tyrion manages to get better results, he's not able to escape his [[HeroWithBadPublicity reputation]] and his father's shadow, though he does survive for a little while, before ending up, like Ned, as a scapegoat for the Lannisters, even given the same opportunity to join the Night's Watch and escape execution.
** Come Season 7 and he has become one to his own brother Jaime. Both men are in service to queens in opposite sides of the war and they genuinely believe they are going to make the world a better place once their victory is complete. They also manage to massively disappoint them due to fatal mistakes they make, such as Tyrion's plans lead to TheAlliance that Daenerys form in Season 6 quickly crumbling and Jaime's defeat in Blackwater Rush and as a result both Daenerys and Cersei disregard their advice to take matters into their own hands.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Tyrion travels the world from the Wall to King's Landing, to Pentos and to Meereen, and becomes the first of the main cast to interact with every major character and faction, making him the linchpin of the series. He has met Jon Snow and the Night's Watch, Robb and Bran Stark at Winterfell, Catelyn Stark and Lysa Arryn at the Vale, King's Landing and the DeadlyDecadentCourt (Lannisters, Littlefinger, Varys, Joffrey, Tyrells, Martells). Once in Essos, he meets Daenerys and Jorah Mormont, and he's the one who breaks Jorah the news about his late father. This becomes clear when he reunites with Theon Greyjoy in Season 6 and brings back [[CallBack their last meeting]] at Winterfell and it becomes even more obvious when in Season 7, he serves as the common friend for both Daenerys and Jon Snow, being the only man who knows both of them.

* TookALevelInKindness: He becomes noticeably nicer to those around him following his induction into Daenerys's court in Season 5. Most of this is likely because, rather being a pariah in the midst of a DeadlyDecadentCourt, he is situated amongst well-meaning individuals who value his advice.

* MotorMouth: Nothing too bad, as he always makes sense, but Tyrion does earn a reputation for never shutting up. He's physically incapable of remaining silent for too long and almost always feels the need to break silences and strike up a conversation.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: After being wrongly sentenced to execution by Tywin, Tyrion has had enough of his father's abuse, and kills him with a pair of crossbow bolts.

* GenreSavvy: He's aware of the Mountain Clans tendency for IAmXSonOfY and thus introduces himself to them as "Tyrion, son of Tywin, of Clan Lannister". In the same way, he calls his father Tywin "son of Tytos".

* TookALevelInKindness: He becomes noticeably nicer to those around him following his induction into Daenerys's court in Season 5. Most of this is likely due to the fact that, rather being a pariah in the midst of a DeadlyDecadentCourt, he is situated amongst well-meaning individuals who value his advice.

** He unconsciously treats Shae as little more than a slave who has no say in anything outside of the bed, and has a few moments where he gets physically violent with her (though he feels awful about them). When he weds Sansa he does desire her, but won't force himself on her. Also, his killing of Shae happened in cold blood and was essentially a spiteful act of vengeance for her turning on him during his trial, but here he's essentially forced to do it to prevent her from exposing Tywin's death and is genuinely remorseful afterwards. Shae did grab the knife first as well, Tyrion was mainly acting in self defense.

The youngest Lannister sibling, son of Tywin and brother of Jaime and Cersei. As Tyrion is born a dwarf and his mother died during childbirth, he is resented by Tywin and Cersei since birth. At the beginning of the series, knowing that no one will ever take him seriously, Tyrion uses his status as a Lannister and live his life with drinks and prostitutes.

Initially driven into [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] by the events that transpired against him Varys gives him a new lease in life by sending him to Meereen to met Daenerys Targaryen. After getting to know each other better, Daenerys trusts Tyrion's valuable advice, and eventually names him her Hand of the Queen. Tyrion admires and even falls in love (platonically) with Daenerys. Together, the two return to Westeros, and Tyrion plans to help her win the Iron Throne. However, fate has different ideas...

-->'''Tyrion:''' What do you want, Bronn? Gold? Women?... Golden women?
--> We've had vicious kings and we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king!

* ICouldaBeenAContender: Played with. Tyrion tells Varys that because of his dwarfism and his father's hatred for him as an InadequateInheritor, he never expected to have real opportunity for his talents and his tenure as Acting Hand of the King is the only real chance he has had to apply himself in a meaningful way.

** Pulls off a masterful one against Cersei in "The Prince of Winterfell", when she tells him that she's captured his whore, and then brings her out so Tyrion can see she's really alive. Thing is, it's actually Ros, not Shae, but Tyrion plays along and pretends she really is the one he loves, keeping Cersei ignorant about Shae. You can actually see the wheels turning in his head as he figures out how to play this.

* InSeriesNickname: Often referred to insultingly as "The Imp" and "Halfman," not that he's all that [[AppropriatedAppellation insulted]], and he's the first to admit that he's a dwarf or to make jokes about becoming "Quarter-Man". His Hillman allies even take Half-Man as a ''battlecry'' as do the Kingsguard during the battle of Blackwater. Shae calls him "My Little Lion". The one nickname he's seemed actually bothered by is "demon monkey", and only because he's blamed for the King's atrocities by the angry mob.

** Of a benevolent sort, he's always been kind to Sansa and protective of her despite his ConflictingLoyalty to the Lannisters. Sansa remembers that he rescued her when Joffrey had her beaten and nearly stripped naked, and refused to sleep with her after they got forcibly married because she was a kid without any consent in the matter. Tyrion also did all he could to comfort her after the Red Wedding; Sansa wanted to be alone not because Tyrion was complicit in his family's dirty dealings -- which he was-- but because all of his kindness couldn't erase the trauma. When Jon goes to meet Tyrion and Dany for an alliance, Sansa silently concedes the point that he is a "good man," which in turn leads to Jon and Dany starting their relationship and the North allying with the Dragon Queen. [[spoiler:In Season 8, they're able to banter about their marriage while hiding from the wights, and Sansa trusts Tyrion enough to tell him Jon's secret, which in turn allows Tyrion to realize that Dany needs stability]].

* TheManBehindTheMan: He becomes this for Joffrey in Season 2 as his acting hand of the King and is notably somewhat of a good guy example. He then gets ousted from the position by his father, Tywin Lannister in "Blackwater" and even while he was the man behind the man to Joffrey, meanwhile Tywin was the man behind the man to him. This causes the smallfolk of Kings Landing to hold him personally responsible for the city's ills even though Joffrey started the war.

* TheMentor: He serves as this to Jon briefly in his period of adjustment with the Night's Watch, he's also one to Podrick Payne. Tyrion alsto tries to educate his nephew, but Joffrey is a lost cause.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: "My dear brother, you wound me. You know how much I love my family." Of course, while he's being entirely sarcastic when he says it, he does tend go along with what's expected of him in the end -- if not exactly in a manner the rest of his family approves of.

** Of course it's one thing for Tyrion to fight Lannisters he dislikes (Tywin and Cersei) but another for him to fight against Lannisters he likes, namely Jaime, and in Season 7, Dany rebukes him for suggesting a softball strategy rather than a ruthless one because he doesn't want to go against Jaime. This becomes obvious when after Dany listens to his suggestion to lay siege and encircle the capital, they come upon the Lannister train carrying the pillage of the Reach back to the city near Blackwater, and the resulting war sees Jaime charging at Dany with a spear all the while Tyrion watches in horror muttering "No" to his brave, foolish, Cersei-serving brother.

** In "The Laws of Gods and Men", he completely snaps after Shae's betrayal, where the abuse and humiliation he's been through his whole life reaches it's tipping point and in a rage calls out the entire court for being ungrateful for all he did for them as acting Hand of the King, wishing that he had just let Stannis kill all of them.

** His confession to the court and most of the times he saves his own life by talking his way out of danger. He even notes that he's always been ''lucky''.

** In "Second Sons", after threatening to castrate Joffrey in front of ''everyone'', he pretends to be more drunk than he really is in order to defuse the situation, which works due to some unexpected help from Tywin to smooth things over.

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: His favorite tactic. When he's put on trial, he delivered a hilarious monologue, which made the nobles of the Eyrie more sympathetic to him and convinced Bronn to come over to his side. His talking also keeps him from being killed by Shagga, and gets him faithful soldiers too. And later he manages to talk himself out of being death/burned alive by Dany's dragons.

* {{Tritagonist}}: In the final two seasons, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen clearly become the protagonists of the series, with their actions of trying to save Westeros from the threat of the White Walkers and take Cersei from the throne. This is reflected even behind the scenes, when actors Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke were promoted at the awards, of Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress to Lead Actor and Lead Actress. In this case, it could be argued that Tyrion Lannister is the Tritagonist. Tyrion is the character with the most appearances in the series, having appeared in 67 of the 73 episodes. Since the beginning, he was the character who had the largest number of interactions with most of the characters in the series, becoming the mediator of the encounter between Jon and Daenerys.

* TheUnfavourite: ''Un-favouritism'' is too mild a word. When he was born, his father thought about abandoning him to die in the sea. In the present day Tywin wouldn't be unhappy if he dropped dead and actually displays disappointment when his son shows up alive after being in harm's way. Tyrion tries to take it in stride.

** In Season 7, Tyrion's plans backfired immeasurably on his allies: his strategy to have King's Landing being captured by their Westerosi allies while the Unsullied take Casterly Rock leads to the Greyjoys and the Dornish leaders being taken out, the Unsullied trapped inside an empty Casterly Rock whereas the bulk of the Lannister army sacked and destroyed House Tyrell, effectively robbing Daenerys of all her allies from the continent. His suggestion to bring a wight South and show it to Cersei in order to propose a truce between their enemies lead to the death of the only Red Priest in Westeros, the White Walkers gaining ''a dragon'' and using it to breach the Wall, all for practically no gain since Cersei has backed out from the propose alliance.
** Being [[spoiler:a loyal servant of Daenerys, he decides to protect his queen from any infighting in her faction and reveals Varys' conspiracy against her after being the one who told Varys about Jon Snow's true parentage. Unfortunately for Tyrion, who only wanted to make sure everyone among Dany's followers remains loyal to her, she doesn't take this well and burns down the King's Landing along with its citizens in anger.]]

* WifeBasherBasher: Is shown to be this when Joffrey is abusing Sansa, whether he was betrothed to her or not, especially in the weddding when he threatened to castrate him.
* WickedCultured: He's very well-read.

Tyrion's life changes forever when Catelyn Stark accuses him of trying to murder Bran Stark, and imprisons him for it. Tyrion uses his intelligence to escape, and after a series of unexpected events, he is sent by his father to impose order on the capital of King's Landing, as well as his nephew Joffrey, the new king, as civil war begins. He serves as acting Hand of the King, doing a great job of protecting the city, but when his father returns, Tyrion is demoted to Master of Coin, chief treasurer of the Seven Kingdoms, losing much of his power and becoming vulnerable to the machinations of his enemies. When Joffrey is murdered, Tyrion becomes the victim of a rather obvious frame-up. After a rather blatantly [[KangarooCourt biased trial]] and being betrayed by his lover Shae, Tyrion demands a trial by combat to determine his fate, only for his champion, Oberyn Martell, to be killed by Gregor Clegane during the trial. Following this, Tyrion is sentenced to death by Tywin. The night before his execution he is freed from his cell by Jaime, only to flee Westeros with the help of Varys after killing Shae and Tywin.

* AntiVillain: While he is mostly a good person at heart, in the most technical sense, Tyrion is loyal to, and furthers the goals of, the 'villainous' House Lannister, which includes helping maintain his [[TheCaligula tyrannical nephew's]] hold on the Iron Throne while knowing he is illegitimate and thus not the rightful King. He recognizes that the family's path to power doesn't need to involve stepping on the heads of every other noble house in the realm, and that trying to do so will have consequences. In the simplest terms, Tyrion is a good man and a good ruler who fights for the Lannisters because they are his family. Until his trial, where a mixture of not being defended by anyone for a crime he did not commit and being betrayed by Shae, the woman he loved, makes Tyrion finally snap after years of mental and emotional abuse. Once Tyrion escapes from his cell with the help on Jaime, he proceeds to kill Shae in self-defense as well as murder his father before fleeing Westeros.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Tyrion loses the one sibling he loved and is compelled to betray the queen he also loved and admired. However, he is able to oversee the beginning of a more peaceful era doing what he does best as Hand of the King, this time with a trustworthy and competent Small Council.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: The tribesman on the way to the Eyrie is his first kill. By the time he leads the defense of King's Landing against Stannis, he has taken several.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Throughout the first few seasons, Tyrion repeatedly demonstrated a keenness towards strategy and planning, to the point where even his father [[ArchnemesisDad Tywin]], the person who literally hates him more than ''anyone else'', had to begrudgingly admit to his skill and wit. But upon entering Daenerys' service, Tyrion repeatedly ends up making tactical blunders, which end up costing Dany thousands of men and one of her own dragons. He even remarks to Sansa that he believes Cersei will come to Dany's aid in the face of the White Walker threat (she won't), a notion that the now-hardened Stark girl finds ludicrous.

* TookALevelInKindness: He becomes noticeably nicer to those around him following his induction into Daenerys's court. Most of this is likely due to the fact that, rather being a pariah in the midst of a DeadlyDecadentCourt, he is situated amongst well-meaning individuals who value his advice.

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Dafnis Fernandez (Latin American Spanish), Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa (Japanese)

The youngest Lannister sibling, brother of Jaime and Cersei. He has dwarfism. Serves as acting Hand of the King and later as Joffrey's Master of Coin, chief treasurer of the Seven Kingdoms, until Joffrey's assassination, with Tyrion being the victim of a rather obvious frame-up. After a rather blatantly [[KangarooCourt biased trial]], Tyrion demands a trial by combat to determine his fate, only for his champion, Oberyn Martell, to be killed by Gregor Clegane during the trial. Following this, Tyrion is sentenced to death by Tywin. The night before his execution he is freed from his cell by Jaime, only to flee Westeros with the help of Varys after killing Shae and Tywin. Initially driven into [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] by the events that transpired against him Varys gives him a new lease in life by sending him to Mereen to met Daenerys who eventually names him her Hand of the Queen.

* AdaptationDeviation: A notable case. A large foundation for Tyrion's love of whoring involves how, as a youth, he and his brother Jaime had rescued a girl named Tysha from a rape. Tyrion then fell in love with her, and married her not long after. Soon enough, Tywin discovered this, and had Tysha gang-raped by an entire garrison of soldiers as a result, and Tyrion found out that Tysha was none other than a whore hired by Jaime to lift his spirits. So Tyrion figured, since no one could ever truly love him, he threw his lot in with prostitutes. In the books, it's revealed [[spoiler:Tysha was ''not'' a whore, and genuinely loved Tyrion -- it had all been a lie set forth by Tywin, whose motive for the aforementioned gang-rape was simply because he couldn't stand seeing Tyrion wed to one of the smallfolk (alternatively, [[EvilIsPetty he just didn't want to see Tyrion happy, for once in his life]]). This revelation shakes Tyrion to the core and leads him down a darker path, where he ends up actively seeking the destruction of his house. But since the Tysha reveal was excised from the show, Tyrion's character goes a different direction. In the show, he doesn't seek retribution against his family members, and is more motivated by the potential that Daenerys has to upheave the destructive system that has laid waste to Westeros for decades.]]

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